LifeChange Foreign Missions
LifeChange International was established in 2001 by the Littleton Vineyard Church with a vision to engage the worldwide community with the love of Jesus. We desire to be Christ's hands and feet in our world by meeting practical needs and sharing the life that can be found in Jesus.
We have partnered to develop a significant work in Uganda, Africa, but now also have people working long term in the Middle East, Europe, and soon, the Philippines. We have also been sending teams to love and care for the impoverished communities of Mexico.
LifeChange Uganda
Uganda is a nation plagued by AIDS and poverty. Many children have become orphans or abandoned due to the AIDS epidemic and live in extreme poverty. Many families are unable to care for their children without help. LifeChange International decided to help.
For over 10 years our pastor, Ian Prichard, has been traveling to Uganda, East Africa, building relationships and caring for the poor and orphans of the nation while partnering with Christians seeking to equip the people to help their people. In 2001, LifeChange International started to support individual children monthly through our partnership with Omega Healing Center in Kampala. By supporting each child with just $20 a month, LifeChange International is helping educate, clothe, and feed children as well as give them a hope and a future while they stay within their family unit. As a result the Omega Healing Center has seen hundreds of children come to Christ along with their siblings, parents, and neighbors. This program has resulted in extraordinary and lasting change in the community where they live.
We have also partnered to establish and support a children’s home in Kampala, Dwelling Places, for children unable to stay with family, and for children who were living on the streets. The vision of Dwelling Places is for the Ugandan children to be raised in a Godly family setting that is able to meet the basic needs for living. The staff serves tirelessly to provide for the needs of all children at Dwelling Places, which now includes abandoned babies and needy families. Dwelling Places works to re-establish the family unit, bring a vocation to needy families, educate the children, and to bring the hope of Christ to each child and family they minister to. The lives of hundred of children and infants have been changed through this work.
LifeChange Middle East
God loves all people. We believe God loves Muslims and we believe God wants us to demonstrate that love in practical ways. As such we are working in the Middle East to touch an oppressed Muslim community with the love of God.
LifeChange Mexico
For the past several years we have taken teams to Mexico to build homes for the homeless. The last group (October 2008) built two homes for homeless or extremely impoverished families, built a church and community center, and reached out by providing food and 100 soccer balls for the community – with the desire to show the love of Jesus to a people in need. We are looking forward to gathering another team to partner in this amazing work and do this all again next year.
LifeChange Philippines
We are currently preparing a team of High School youth from Littleton Vineyard's Student LIFE to travel to the Philippines in the Spring of 2009 to work with street children in Manila, building friendships, feeding children, working in an established medical clinic, and more. Jack and Tammy Fairweather will be leaving in January of 2009 to stay for a number of months working to establish themselves there with the goal of moving to the Philippines long term with the goal of establishing a children's home for street children.
For more information on LifeChange International check out our website www.lifechange.net.
